When is the right time to reset your people strategy, objectives, and roadmap? Which projects and initiatives do you prioritise?
Where do you anticipate a shortage of capabilities and experience? Which projects and initiatives do you externalise?
Understand your challenges and priorities
We begin by engaging in collaborative consultation with your organisation's stakeholders to thoroughly understand and formalise both met and unmet needs and priorities. Following this consultation, we work together to co-define and shortlist the critical priorities that are essential for your people, people managers, and business leaders.
Your organisation will benefit from:
- Insights from HR customers and providers through interviews, focus groups, and/or surveys, capturing their perspectives.
- Alignment between HR customers and providers on the identified priorities, needs, and challenges to be addressed by the people strategy.
- Validation of the next steps in strategy development, ensuring a clear direction for moving forward.
Develop your people strategy and roadmap
During this phase, our collaboration focuses on co-creating your people strategy, encompassing the development of mission and vision statements, guiding principles, strategic objectives, and initiatives. Additionally, we work together to create a roadmap and build a compelling case for change.
Your organisation will benefit from:
- People strategy mission and vision statements, along with guiding principles, to provide a clear direction and purpose for your efforts.
- People objectives and metrics of success that outline the desired outcomes and provide measurable criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of your people strategy.
- Strategic initiatives and a roadmap that detail the specific actions and timelines needed to implement the people strategy, ensuring a structured approach to achieving your objectives.
- Validation of an evidence-based case for change, based on data-driven insights, to support the rationale and benefits of implementing the proposed people strategy.
Activate your people strategy and roadmap
During this phase, our collaboration involves co-creating project charters with your team to establish clarity regarding ownership, resource allocation, milestones, metrics, risks, and dependencies. Additionally, we provide guidance on optimising internal and/or external resource allocation for project execution and, if necessary, support the assessment and selection of implementation partners.
Your organisation will benefit from:
- Clearly defined project charters that outline ownership, resources, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Assessment and selection of external implementation partners with the best value for money.
Monitor the execution and impact
Executing and activating your people strategy demands a distinct skill set that differs from organisation's regular projects and activities, potentially resulting in shortages of capabilities and experience. Our mentoring packages are flexible, ranging from one day per month to one day per week, and the effort required will depend on the scope, complexity, and pace of your strategy.
Your organisation will benefit from:
- Strategic mentoring on project and change management execution, providing guidance and support to ensure the successful implementation of your people strategy.
- Preparation, delivery, and follow-up of mentoring interventions, tailored to your specific needs and designed to address key priorities and challenges.
- Quality assurance oversight of work performed by both internal and external partners, ensuring that the outcomes meet the desired standards of quality.